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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Louis Chilton

Holocaust Memorial Day: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas ‘may fuel dangerous Holocaust fallacies,’ says new study

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A new academic study has claimed that the bestselling novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas may fuel “dangerous fallacies” about the Holocaust.

First published in 2006, John Boyne’s book focuses on the friendship between a Jewish boy imprisoned in Auschwitz and the son of a Nazi commandant. It was adapted into a film in 2008.

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